I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.
I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize our expenditures to buy the most health care for the most people? We should not apologize for rationing; we should promote it and advance it.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.
I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
American public policy is run on a myth.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.
